May 052010
In music departments around the world, the traditional course in the history of music – now called ‘Western art music’ – has been under pressure to give way to a course in the history of popular music (now called ‘music’). More inclusive, less élitist, all that.
I thought I’d help this reform along with some suggestions for the year 1911.
| New worklist | Old worklist |
| Hyacinth Rag | Bartok, Bluebeard’s Castle |
| Somewhere a Voice is Calling | Granados, Goyescas |
| Alexanders Ragtime Band | Nielsen, Symphony No 3 |
| I want a girl just like the one that married dear old dad | Rachmaninov, Études-tableaux |
| The Oceana Roll | Ravel, Ma mère l’oye |
| Gaby Glide | Schoenberg, Gurrelieder |
| Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold | Sibelius, Symphony No 4 |
| Little Grey Home In The West | Stravinsky, Petrushka |